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DISCOURSE 
GOOD EDUCATION OF CHILDREN, 
Se. Fe. : 


FUNERAL OF EZEKIEL CHEEVER; 


PRINCIPAL OF THE LATIN SCHOOL IN BOSTON ; WHO DIED, 
AUGUST, 1708, 


IN THE NINETY-FOURTH YEAR OF HIS AGE. 


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By tue Rev. COTTON MATHER, D. D. 





SOMEWHAT ABRIDGED, 


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FROM THE POEMS OF CHEEVER’S MANUSCRIPT, 


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THE EDITOR’S PREFACE. 





Corprerivus AMERICANUS, by Rey. Corron Marner, D. D. 
somewhat abridged, is now presented to the Public, to perpetuate 
the memory of Ezexie, Curerever. Several paragraphs of the 
‘ Historical Introduction” encumbered with Latin Phrases, to- 
gether with portions of the Sermon objectionable for the same 
reason, or not necessary to the design of the present publication, 
—and also, a considerable part of the Doctor’s ‘“‘ Essay,” it was 
thought proper to omit. 

The portions selected by the Editor of this Abridgment have 
been principally copied verbatim, except, when it was neces- 


sary, in omitting repetitions, to embrace the substance of 
several sentences in a single sentence. The amendments 


attempted are, nevertheless, not numerous ;—more might, per- 
haps, have been made in various places, in which the Original 
has been retained out of deference to the Author. Ifthe same 
attentiveness of writing which appears in some of his larger and 
more elaborate publications, had been as manifest in the work 
before us, the hand of Criticism would have met with but little 
employment :—An abridgment of it, however, in the circum- 
stances which now seem to justify its republication, he believes, 
might still be allowable. | 
Its having been proposed to republish Corderius America - 


nus, was the first inducement to a more particular examination 


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of the work, which was done, under a conviction, that, as it is 
now out of print,—in bringing it again into public notice,—“ if 
abridged with a tolerable degree of care, and somewhat amended 
in reference to style, it might be rendered, to the generality 
of readers, even more acceptable, and more useful than the orig- 
inal. Under this impression, the work was transcribed and care- 
fully revised. Thata better abridgment might not have been 
made, he is by no means presumptuous enough to imagine. He 
has, however, bestowed a considerable degree of labour upon the 
work, and he hopes that what he has done, will not very seriously 
disappoint any reasonable expectation on the part of the reader.” 

The fac simile of the Manuscript of the venerable Curever 
bearing date 1631, together with Poems of the same manu- 
script, and penned no doubt, in his native city, (London,) as 
may be seen by the close of his Easmexsyv ad Carotum ReeGem ; 
—he hopes will be gratifying to the community, and obtain for 
the ensuing pages, with other publications, its proportion of their 
patronage. 


EZEKIEL CHEEVER. 
Goshen, Sept. 1828. 





THE ORIGINAL PREFACE ABRIDGED. 





A due care about a Funeral for the dead among the Jews had 
his phrase for it, A bestowment of mercy. But the Sermon I 
have preached at the Funeral of my master must be called, a do- 
ing of justice :—And I am very much misinformed if this were 
not the general voice of all the auditory. 

Perfection in this life is not to be expected; nor have any a » 
right to pretend to it. 

We must not wonder then if the best of our teachers be thought 
attended with their imperfections. ‘Whatever mine might have, 
they are buried. And we generally concur in acknowledging, 
that New England has never known a better. I am sure I have 
as much reason to appear for him as ever Crito for his master So- 
crates. | 

The short history of his long usefulness is to be comprised in 
the ensuing articles :— 

He was born in London, Jan. 25, 1614. 

He arrived in this country in June, 1637, with thé rest of those 
good men who sought a peaceable secession in an American wil- 
derness, for the pure, evangelical, and instituted worship of 
our great Redeemer; to which he kept a strict adherence all 
his days. 

He then sojourned first, part of a year, at Boston; so that at 
Boston he both commenced and concluded his American race. 


His holy life was a married life, 


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He began the laborious work of a schoo!-master at New-Haven , 
where he continued for twelve years. 

From New-Haven he removed to Ipswich in December, 1650, 
where he laboured eleven years. 

From Ipswich he removed to Charlestown, in November, 1661, 
where he laboured nine years. 

From Charlestown he came over to Boston, Jan. 6, 1670, where 
his labours were continued for eight and thirty years. 

He died on Saturday morning, August 21, 1708, in the ninety- 
fourth year of his age ; after he had been a skilful, painful, faith- 
ful school-master for seventy years; and had the singular favour 
of Heaven, that though he had usefully spent his life among chil- 
dren, yet he was not become twice a child; but held his abilities, 


with his usefulness, in an unusual degree to the very last. 





SBRMUON. 





2 Timoruy, ii. 11. 


——From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, which are able 
to make thee wise unto salvation. 





Ir was a great case which the parents to a son of great hope 
once put to a messenger of heaven, Judges xiii. 12. How shall 
we order the child, and what shall we do unto him? |The edu-— 
cation of our children is a point of inexpressible consequence. 
Unworthy to be parents, most worthy to be esteemed rather 
monsters, than parents, are they who are not solicitous to give 
their children an agreeable education. There is no serious reli- 
gion in those parents who are not solicitous that their children - 
should have a religious education. Our children are so nume- 
ous, the temptations which endanger the ruin of our children are 
so innumerable, that we ought frequently and earnestly to insist 
on this point, their agreeable and religious education. We will 
now therefore inquire, How shall we order the chilean and what 
shall we do unto them % 

I will answer in one word ; let the children have such an edu- 
cation as Timothy had. We have before us a description of that 
education, and a direction to give you this 

Docrrine : 

That saving wisdom is to be fetched from the knowledge of | 
the holy Scriptures ; and the early knowledge of the holy Scrip- 
tures is the way to be betimes made wise unto salvation. 

That we may more intelligibly prosecute this doctrine, we 
will first alittle entertain ourselves with the history of a child made 
wise unto salvation, by the knowledge of the holy Scriptures. 


A Timothy, and the education of a lovely Timothy, shall be first 
a little set before us. 


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Paul, a prisoner at Rome, a little before his martyrdom, ad- 
dresses Timothy with an epistle, which Chrysostom ingeniously 
calls, Our Apostle’s last will and testament. In this epistle our 
Apostle exhorts his excellent and beloved son Timothy to sted- 
fastness in the faith and work of his Lorp. And his education 
is one argument with which he inculcates the exhortation. 

Timothy was very happy in his education. It may be edify- 
ing for to us reflect a little on the occasion of this education, 
and the influence of it. 

Timothy had a godly mother and a godly grand-mother.— 
Both of them were Jews.—His father was a Gentile. But he 
also was converted to Christianity.—And having begun betimes 
to give their little son the knowledge of the holy Scriptures ;—an 
early tincture of scriptural piety thus took the mind of the child. 
But when the parents were brought home to the blessed Jesus 
they entreated Paul who had been their spiritual father—to take 
the tuition of him. O happy child in the hands of such a tutor ! 

Well ;—and what was the effect of this education? Our 
Timothy did himself prove a Christian of the first rate ; yea, and 
an admirable minister. His labours in the harvest of his 
Lorp were extraordinary. Every one wondered how any one 
man could ever labour so abundantly. He was of a feeble 
constitution; and of such an abstemious temperance that he was 
even blamed for it ;— but one of an active soul—one of a flam- 
ing zeal. The great Paul could give this testimony of him,, 
that he did not know another man in the world so ready, on all 
occasions to every good work. 

I can now with some enforcement again tell my hearers, that 
they who would be wise to salvation must know the holy scrip- 
ures, and that for children to know the holy scriptures, is early 


__ wisdom and saving wisdom. 


Your attention is invited to several propositions, with which 
it were to be wished all our children were well acquainted. 

I. To yield obedience to Gop in the ways and rules of his holy 
religion, this is to be wise to salvation. There is a holy relig- 
ion with which we are to glorify God in this world. By so do- 
ing we answer the end of our being, and secure our title to 
eternal glory in the world to come. Now there never was a 
truer assertion than that, Psalm cxi. 10. The beginning of wis- 


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dom is the fear of the Lord. All they that give themselves to it have 


a good understanding.—It secures treasure in heaven where 
neither moth nor rust corrupt,—where no thief approaches to 
break through or steal_—There is therefore nothing so reasona- 
ble as to be religious—nothing so profitable—nothing so neces- 
sary.—And as the rules of religion are prescribed by the only 
wise’ Goon—the Gop of whom we are assured, Psalm cxlv. 5. 
His understanding is infinite ;—they must needs be wise rules ; 
and it must needs be our wisdom to adhere to them. 

One main stroke in religion is, rarrH towards our Lorp Jesus 
Curist. Faith is in the Bible often called by the name of wis- 
dom. It is most justly called su. It beholds, it receives, it en- 


_ joys that glorious Curist in whom there is the wisdom of Gop. _ 


And the end of our faith will be the salvation of the soul. 

Another main stroke in religion is REPENTANCE towards Gop. 
Repentance is a rescipiscence, or growing wise again. It must 
be wisdom to abhor sin, and to turn from it. ‘To sin is to do 
very foolishly. And repentance has the promise of salvation. 

There is no man but will own, it is the wisdom of every 
man to save his own soul. For, What is a man profited if he 
gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Now the issue of 
conformity to the rules of religion will be the salvation of the 
soul. We read, Heb. v. 9. Curis ts the author of eternal salva- 
tron to all that obey him. 

II. It is by the knowledge of the holy scriptures that we "at 
the rules of religion.—Accordingly,—lIf ever we come to salva- 
tion, it must be by conversing with the scriptures.—We are so 
called upon. John v. 39. Search the scriptures for in them ye ~ 
think ye have eternal life ; and they are they which testify of me. It 
was very fit that the will of Gop giving us the rules of living to 
him should be contained ‘in some writings or other. Those in- 
spired writings which we have in our Old and New Testament, 
are the only ones that can pretend to this dignity. In these 
scriptures we have the rules of religion, by the observing of 
which we shall be wise to salvation. Here, here is the Gospel 
whereof we are told, Eph.i. 15. Jt is the gospel of your salvation. 
If we lack the knowledge of this Gospel we shall be a people of 
no understanding. Of such a people how terribly it thunders. 

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He that made them will not have mercy on them; He that formed them 
will show them no favour. What is all the learning in the world 
without the knowledge of the scriptures. There were, they say, 
two hundred thousand books in the library which Ptolemy erec- 
ted at Alexandria; but it was the addition of the scriptures 
which made it a truly learned library. And whatever we may 
have learned from all our books, it is the knowledge of the 
scriptures that will bring us to the truest and indeed the only 
learning. : 

But what sort of Soe is requisite ? 

Be sure a doctrinal knowledge of the scriptures is requisite 
that we may be wise to salvation. We read, 2 Cor. iv. 3. if 


your gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost. We must know 


doctrinally the main things that are communicated to us in the 
holy scriptures. Tur cREATION or MAN By Gop. THE CONFU- 
SION OF MAN BY SIN. "THE REDEMPTION OF MAN BY CHRIST. These 
are the main things in the holy scriptures. If we are ignorant 
of these things, our ignorance will plunge us into everlasting 
_ darkness. Even now it lays us in chains of darkness. 

But then a practical knowledge of the scriptures is also re- 
quisite. We know to little purpose except we do according to 
what we know. We read, John xiii. ¥7. If ye know these things 
happy are ye if ye dot Knowledge must be as John Baptist 
was to our Saviour cursor to goodness. We must know 
the truth, and walk in the truth—We must know Gop and serve 
him.—We must know Curist, and grow in grace. We must 
| know and _ hear our duty; and we must be doers of the word. 
/ and not hearers only.—Else we are not wise to salvation. We 
read, Matt. vil. 26. Itis the part of a foolish man who builds 
his house upon the sand,—and great is the fall of it.—But the sweet 
conjunction of the knowledge and practice of the holy scrip- 
tures, will lay up for us a hope in heaven that bringeth forth 
fruit. 

III. The inference from hence is that the early knowledge of 
the holy scriptures is the way to be betimes made wise to salva- 
tion. 

And now there is a two fold application to be made of this’ 
observation—on which we will discourse by applying it to two 
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It is the interest of all teachers to begin betimes in the teach- 
ing of children the early knowledge of the holy scriptures, that 
so they may be wise to salvation. It is to you O teachers,—un- 
to you, first, there must now come the word of the Lorp. It 
must come with an answer to diverse enquiries. as 

We will, first, enquire and declare, when should we begin to 
teach our children the knowledge of the scriptures ?—In view 
of the direction, Deut. vi. 7. to teach them diligently—and Eph. 
vi. 4. to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lorp ; 
—need we be afraid of beginning too early ? 

First, then, as soon as the children can know, ought we not to 
teach them what they should know? Thus early, no doubt, they 
began with Solomon; else he would not have said, Prov. iv. 3, 4 
4. Iwas my father’s son, a tender and only one in the sight of my | 
mother, then he taught me. 

Again—How early do the children begin to know other mat- ~ 
ters -—Can we teach them what they owe tous? Methinks we 
may then teach them what they owe to the Lorp, who made 
both us and them. Their little souls are precious cabinets. 
Why should not the best things be put into them? We are so 
calledupon, Matt.vi. 32. Seek first the kingdomof Gop. Even 
so with the first let them learn the things which concern the 
kingdom of Gop. | 

Once more—How early do the chil begin to know and 
do what may be hurtful to them? It is very early that they 
learn the things condemned in the scriptures. Why should 
they not as early learn the scriptures themselves? and to know 
the precepts of Gop as early as they know how to break them ? 
A child no sooner begins to do any thing rational, but satan be- 
gins to show it how to do something that is criminal. Methinks 
I see the image of it, Rev. xii.4. The dragon stood to devour the ~ 
child as soon as it was born. Then, say I, it becomes us to stand , 
ready with the knowledge of the holy scriptures ; and thus, if “ 
possible, to rescue the children from the venomous designs of 
the dragon on them. 

There is a plausible objection against this early essay to give 
our children the knowledge of the scriptures. 


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Will not this be to make the children take the name of the 
Lorp in vain? Would it not be more discretion to stay till the 
children are themselves come to some years of descretion? It 
is easily answered. Will you never teach the children till you 
see them have the grace, that will keep them from taking the 
name of the Lorp in vain? Rather teach them to keep them 
from it. And let our discretion teach us to manage the matter 
wisely, in teaching our children with all possible gravity ;—to be 
grave in every thing that relates to Gop and their souls Con- 
_ sider also the capacity of the children. Teach them what shall 
be good for them; and forbear the rest till they shall be more 
_ able to bear it. . , 

We will, Secondly, enquire and declare, what is the knowl- 
edge of the holy scriptures, which we are to teach our chil- 
dren? = 

Truly as much as ever we can help them to ;—all they can 

remember—all they can comprehend. More particularly, 
- First, Tue Histortes of the holy scriptures. Only it would 
be adviseable always to clench the histories with some admoni- 
tions of piety which are to be gathered from them. ‘There are 
none of those histories of which it may not be said, Psalm xix. 11. 
Thy servant is warned by them. 

Secondly, We are ach our children the principies of the 
holy scriptures—W hey have taught us to believe about 
Gopv—his perfections, and his works :—About the fall of man, 
and the method of his recovery—about the Lorp Jesus Curistr 
—who he is—and what he has done, and what he will do for his 
chosen people. We read that the principles of the doctrine of 
Curist are the milk for babes. That these things may be the 
' better taught, an orthodox catechism is to be employed. They 
- should say their catechism, and be rewarded when they can say 
it. Pertaining to which such questions to them should be put, 
as that their answers will give us to perceive whether or not 
they understand what they say.--We read, 2 Tim. i. 13. There 
is a form of sound words—which they must hear from us. 

Thirdly, We are to teach our children the commanpents of the 
holy scriptures. ‘There are the ten commandments—There are 
many lessons to be inculcated on them—lessons by which their 








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manners are to be regulated—Goop LEssoNs FOR CHILDREN, may 
be the title for them. ? 

But there is one very great aikin’ss which is often to be insisted 
on. The children have mostly been baptized. Oh, make them 
know the intent and meaning of their baptism !—Tell them, now 
my child, you must be a servant of a glorious Curisr, and be 
afraid of defiling yourself with any sin, since you have been wash- 
ed in the name of the most holy Lorp. Say to them; 1 Chron. 
xxviii. 9. My child, know thou the Gon of thy father, and serve 
him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: If thou seek him he will 
be found of thee ; but if thou forsake Hib he will cast thee off for ever. 
You cannot imagine how much efficacy this teaching may have 
upon them. 

Fourthly, The children should learn, as early as sis ite to 
read the holy scriptures. ‘This being done—see that every day 
they read, and remember something of the book of life-—And 
out of what they read, show them how to make prayers.—When 
once it comes to be said, behold they pray, it is hkely that it may 
quickly be said, they are wise to salvation. ‘The Bible was well 
called by one of the ancients, a letter from the ALmigury Gop to 
his creatures.—Such a letter it should be considered to our chil- 
dren. ‘They should be taught accordingly to read it—and re- 
verence it—and answer it. gi 

. This it will be for the children to ioe the holy scriptures. 

We will, Thirdly, enquire and declare, who itis that is to 
teach the children the knowedge of the holy scriptures ? 

In particular the pastors of the flock ;they must not neglect 
the children of the flock. The charge of our Lord to them 
is, John xxi. 15. Feed my lambs. It seems proposed as if it 


were at least one third part of the pastoral charge. O men of 


Gop, how many ways may you devise good, in this affair; to 
make the children of your charge wise to salvation !—Of many 
such devices,—I! will mention one proposed by the excellent 
Mr. White in his Manual for Parents :-——‘* That ministers would 
“sometimes preach at the schools as well as catechise, because, 
“as he says, the preaching of the world is the converting ordi- 
“nance. And when sermons are brought to the schools, the 
“children must needs hear with more attention—and of such 
“ things, too, as more immediately concern them. The minis- 


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* be so fit for a larger congregation. ss 

The master and mistresses in the school may do much in this 
noble work. Truly to teach the little ones the knowledge of the 
holy scriptures, and make them wise to salvation—is a stately 
work—I had almost called ita work for angels.—Yet by teach- 
ing them something of the holy scriptures, who knows but you 
may drop some honey from that rock upon them, which, with the 
blessing of Gop, will save their souls >—Every time a new child 
comes to the school, may you not hope he has sent you another 
object, on which you may do rig to advance his kingdom 
in the world? 

No ;—nor will we excuse the very servants—even the hand- 
maids of the family,—as they are dressing and feeding the chil- 
dren,—from this blessed work. | 
—Oh !—If servants would once come to take.a pleasure in 
such a thing—to keep teaching the children something from 
the holy scriptures ; how would they adorn the doctrine of Gop 
their Saviour! 

—But, Lastly, and yet First’ of all, O parents, arise ;' this 
matter belongs chiefly to you; we also willbe with you. None; 
I say, none are so much concerned as parents to look after it, 
that their children be taught the knowledge of the scriptures. 
‘The famous king oer a law, that every man who 
had as muchas two hides of land, should bring up his children 
to learning {ill fifteen years of age at least, that so they might 
know Curisr and live happily ; else he said they were but beasts 
and sots. Iam to press it that parents give their children all 
the learning they can; especially that which will bring them to 

know Curist and live happily. 

' Parents, what motive can you desire more than this? It is 
the way to make the children wise tosalvation. Did you duly 
teach them the knowledge of the scriptures, they would be like- 
ly to be children of whom it is said, 1 John ii. 13, Little children 
ye have known the Farner. And Oh what would be the fruit of 
\ this knowledge ?—Truly this is life eternal. You lodge in the 
little souls of your children the seeds of life eternal if God please 
to make themso. Whata charming word is that, Gen. xvill. 19. 
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He will command his children, and they shall keep the way of the 


Lorp. B 

Certainly you desire the salvation of your children. You 
have had your share among the causes of it, that they are by na- 
ture the children of wrath. And would you not see them saved 
from that wrath? But if the knowledge of the scriptures be | 
withheld from the children.—If their understandings be darken- ~ 
ed—If they know not Gop and the Lorp Jesus Curist, their 
doom from the Lorn will be Depart from me,I know you not. We 
read of a child, 2 Kings, iv. 19. He said to his father, my head, ymy 
head ! Be 

Parents, these are the cries which the souls of your children | 
make in your ears. My head, my head! My heart, my heart! & 
It will be a very dungeon of wickedness, if by the knowldge of 
the scriptures you do not purify it—-You have the command 
and the promise of Gop, Prov. xxii. 4... Train up a child in the 
way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart 
from it. Gop puts these children into your hands. Here, 
he says, take this child, let it be taught the knowledge 
of the scriptures. Iwill reward all thy pains. Thy well in- 
structed child shall be thy comfort—If it miss of salvation, yet 
thou shalt have peace in thy mind ; that thou didst thy endeavor 
to make it wise to salvation. But if it want knowledge and 
saving wisdom through any gross neglect of thine, thy a 
ment shall be terrible in the day of the Lorp’s pleading with thee, / 

Consider what I say and the Lorp give you understanding a 
do your part, that your children may not want understanding, or 
die without instruction.. It is the wish of heaven over you 
Deut. xxxil. 29. Oh that they were wise, that they understand this, 

that, (so some render it) they would consider their posterity. 

I will now say, children, [hope you are come hither that you 
may be made wise‘to salvation. 

Come, yechildren, hearken to me, I will teach you what 
ought to do. 

You ought, first, to be willing to be taught the fear of the 
Lorp.—When your teachers would teach you something of the 
scriptures—be not so set upon your childish and foolish play, as 
to countevery minute a weary hour under their teaching. Rath- | 
er come to your teachers and beg it of them, I pray teach me 








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something.—Count the knowledge of Gop and Curisr and heav- 
enly things a more precious thing than any thing in the world. 

Yea, secondly, you ought never to be satisfied. Know as 
much of the scriptures as ever you can.—Read the Bible daily 
—Ask abundance of questions about what you read.—Never 
count that you know enough—and despise all ornaments in com- 
parison of this—to be adorned.with the knowledge of the holy 
_ scriptures. = 
_ But, thirdly, be sure to no what you know from the 'scrip- 

tures that you ought todo. As now; do not you know from 
the scriptures that you ought to pits holy the Lorp’s day—to 
honour your parents—to suffer any thing rather than tell a lie— 
\ and to pray in. secret daily—and without ceasing? Oh, do 

these things, my children, be sure to do such things !—Hear the 
voice of your. Saviour, Prov. vill. 17... They that seek me early 
shall find me.—Again, Matt. xix. 14. Suffer little children to 
come unto me—for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Well then, 
betimes, now in your childhood, Oh, come to a glorious Cuaisr ; 
put yourself into his hands. Beg of him, I beseech thee, O Lorn, 
to deliver my soul. Why should your childhood be nothing but 
vanity !—nothing but a long step in the arms of death and 
darkness. | 

It was the saying of one that was wise betimes, Psalm cxix. 
147. I prevented the dawning of the morning, and erted ; I hoped 
in thy word. While you are yet children, you must have piety 
rectifying, sanctifying and purifying your childhood. While 
reason is yet upon the dawning with you, there is reason 
that you should mind religion. ‘There was once an incompara- 
ble child of whom we read, 1 Sam. iti. 4. The child Samuel 
ministered unto the Lonv.—A child that was visited and possessed 
by the Spirit of Gop—that quickly answered the calls | of the 
Hoty One—and that would leave his sleep to hold communion 
with the Lorp. O most amiable child ! 

Children, it is your dawning time.—It may be your dying 
time.—It is now upon computation found, that more than half 
the children of men die before they come to be seventeen years 
of age. And needs any thing more be said for your awakening 
to learn the holy scriptures. 


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The small as well as the great are to stand before the judge- g 


ment seat of Gop. Oh that while you are yet small you may be 
greatly affected with the day of judgement. Ifyou go on todo 


amiss—know that for this Gop will bring you into judgement.— y 


And as we read, Matt. xviii. 10. The little ones have their an- 
gels—Dear children, behave yourselves as having the angels of 
Gop looking upon you—and looking after you. 

And may the Gop of all grace set home such thoughts as these 
upon the hearts of our children, and give perfect hearts unto 
them! 

If they do not mind these things in this more public dispen- 
sation of them, will you that are teachers more privately incul- 
cate such things upon them? I had the happiness of an educa- 
tion under a school-master who was exemplary for doing so. 
Before we part I am to tell you more concerning him. 

You shall give me leave to conclude with a very reasonable 
corollary. 

Worthy of honour are the teachers that convey wisdom to 
our children; worthy of double honour the happy instruments 
that convey saving wisdom to them. There are some whose 
peculiar profession it is, to bestow useful and various learning 
upon our children, and who make their employment a precious 
advantage to learn them the holy scriptures, and to make them 
wise for eternity. f 

The particular persons who have their children in the tutelage 
of skilful and careful school-masters, ought to make them suita- 
ble recompenses. Their stipends are generally far short of 
their deserts—Their pains are not small. What they do is very 
great. And surely ourchildren are very dear to us—I need not 


to all mankind. I cannot but observe it with a just indignation 
—to feed our children, to clothe our children, to do any thing 
for the bodies of our children—or perhaps to teach them some 
trifle at a dancing school, scarce worth their learning, we count 
no expense too much—at the same time to have the minds of 
the children enriched with the most valuable knowledge here— 
to what purpose is the cry ?——A little expense—how heavily it 


quote Euripides to tell you, that they are the very life and soul - 


goes off! My brethren, these things ought not so tobe. Well — 


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taught children have certainly a high claim to our particular 
esteem.—When the mother of the Gracchi was asked for the 
sight of her ornaments, how instructively did she present her two 
sons brought up in learning and virtue, as the brightest of all 
her ornaments! If we were duly sensible how vast a concern, 
how vast a comfort it is—to have well taught children—we 
should study all the ways imaginable to express our thankful- 
ness to the teachers of them—And it would not be complained, 
that a Mecaenas is to be no where found but in Horace’s 
poetry.—The Christian emperor Gratian one of the best of men 
that ever swayed the Roman sceptre, conferred riches and hon- 
ours on his master Ansonius, with this agreeable compliment : 
—Sir, said he, I have paid what I owed, and I still owe what I 
have paid. 

We hear good words now and then spoken for the tribe of 
Levi. Idesire to speak one for the tribe of Simeon.—The Sim- 
eonites were the school-masters that were scattered in Israel.— 
Though Moses left them out of his blessing—Yet our glorious 
Jesus has a blessing for them—They serve him wonderfully— 
His people will also bless them, and bless Gop for them. And 
so will I this day do for my master in this congregation of the 
Lorp. 

School-masters that have used the office well, purchase to 
themselves a good esteem to out-live their death, as well as mer- 
it for themselves a good support while they live. It is a justice 
to them that they should be had in everlasting remembrance— 
and a place and a name among those just men doth particularly 
belong to that ancient and honourable man—a master in our Is- 
rael—who was with us the last time of my standing here—but 
is now with those blessed spirits who wait and long for the first 
resurrection. 

Verrius the master of the nephews of Jugustus had a statue 
erected for him ; and Antonius obtained from the senate a statue 
for his master F'ronto.--I am sorry that mine has none—But in the 
grateful memories of his scholars there have been and will be 
hundreds erected for him. 

In the imperial law we read that good Grammarians, having 
taught with diligence twenty years, were to have special honour 


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conferred upon them—I challenge for my master more than a 
treble portion of that special honour. But Oh, let it all pass 
through him, up to the glorious Lorp who made him to be what 
he was! 

His eminent abilities for the work which rendered him so long 
useful in his generation were universally acknowedged—And it 
was noted that when scholars came to be admitted into the col- 
lege, they who came from the Cheeverian education, were gen- 
erally the most unexceptionable.— 

He flourished so long in this great work of bringing our sons 
to be men, that it gave him an opportunity to send forth many 
Bezaleels and Aholiabs for the service of the tabernacle; and men 
fitted for all good employments. He that was my master seven 
and thirty years ago, was a master to many of my betters, no 
less than seventy years ago—so long ago that I must even men- 
tion my father’s tutor for one of them. 

And as it is written for the lasting renown of the Corderius, 
whose colloquies he taught us—that the great Calvin had been 
a scholar to him—so this our American Corderius had many 
scholars that were a crown to him—yea many that will be his 
crown in the presence of our Lorp Jesus Curist at his coming 
—yea many that were got into the heavenly world before him. 
And the mention of the heavenly world leads me to that which 
is principally to be noticed—His piety,—I say, his piety—and 
his care to infuse documents of piety into the scholars under 
his charge, that he might carry them with him to the heavenly 
world. 3 

Why should not a school-master be to his children a school- | 
master to bring them to Curist? This was the study of our 
CHEEVER. ! 

He lived as a master the term which has been for above three 
thousand years assigned for the life of man.—He continued to 
the ninety-fourth year of his age an unusual instance of liveli- 
ness.—His intellectual force as little abated as his natural He 
exemplified the fulfilment of that word, As thy days so shall thy 
strength be—in the gloss which the Jerusalem targum has put 
upon it—as thou wast in the days of thy youth, such thou shalt 
be in thy old age.—- 


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Death must now do its part.—He died longing for death. Our 
old Simeon waited for it, that he might get nearer to the conso- 
lation of Israel. He died leaning like old Jacob upon a staff ; 
the sacrifice and the righteousness of a glorious Curist, he let 
us know was that staff. He died mourning for the quick apos- 
tasy which he saw breaking in upon us ;—very easy about his 
own eternal happiness, but full of distress for a poor people here 
under the displeasure of Heaven, for former iniquities, he thought, 
as well as later ones. ‘To say no more—He died a candidate 
for the first resurrection. And verily our land is weakened when 
those fly away, at whose flight we may cry out: My father, my 
father, the chariots of New England and the horsemen thereof. 


THE ESSAY 


ON THE 


faemory of Esekiel Cheever, 


BY COTTON MATHER, D. D. 


ABRIDGED. 








Augusto perstringere carmine laudes, 
Quas nulla eloquii vis celebrare queat, 


You that are men, and thoughts of manhood know 
Be just now to the man that made you so. , 
Martyr’d by scholars the stabb’d Cassian dies, 
And falls to cursed lads a sacrifice. 
Not so my CuHEeEver ; not by scholars slain, 
But praised and loved and wish’d to live again. 
A mighty tribe of well instructed youth 
Tell what they owe to him, and tell with truth. 
A learned Master of the languages 
Which to rich stores of learning are the keys— 
He taught us first good sense to understand, 
And put the golden keys into our hand— 
A Christian Terrence, Master of the file 
That arms the curious to reform their style-— 
His work he loved—Oh had we done the same! ——) 
Our play-days still to him ungrateful came— 
And yet so well our work adjusted lay 
We came to work as if we came to play.— 
His counsels given to reform our youth, 
Distill’d like honey from our Nestor’s mouth,— 
Concerned,—that when from him we learning had, 
It might not armed wickedness be made. 
The Summer shall first bring large drifts of snow, 
And beauteous cherries in December grow, 
Ere of those charges we forgetful are 
Which we, O man of Gop, from thee did hear. 
Meanwhile America a wonder saw ; 
A youth in age, forbid by nature’s law. 
To weak old age, you say, there must belong 
A trembling palsy both of limb and tongue— 
Days of decrepitude—a bending back 
Propp’d by a staff in hands that ever shake. 
But, here, in transitory Life’s last days, 
Our Curxver’s sun dispensed his setting rays 


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With faculties of reason still as bright, 
And at good services as exquisite. 

Adieu a little while, dear saint, adieu, 
Till scenes eternal open to my view. 
In the mean time, with gratitude I must 
Engrave an Epitaph upon your dust. 





EPITAPHIUM. 
EZEKIEL CHEEVERUS ; 
Ludimagister ; 

Primo Neoportensis ; 
Deinde, Ipsuicensis ; 

Postea, Carolotenensis ; 
Postremo, Bostonensis : 
cujus 
Doctrinam ac Virtutem 
Nosti, si sis Nov-Anglus, 
Colis, si non Barbarus ; 
GRAMATICUS, 

‘a Quo non pure tantum, sed et pie, 
Loqui ; 

RHETORICUS, 

a Quo non tantum ornate dicere 
coram Hominibus, 
sed et Orationes coram Deo fundere 
Efficacissimas ; 

Porra, | 
a Quo non tantum Carmina pangere, 
sed et 
Celestes Hymnos Odasqus Angelicas, 
canere, 
Didicerunt, 
Qui discere voluerunt ; 
Lucerna, 
ad Quam accensa sunt, 
Quis queat numerare, 
Quot Ecclesiarum Lumina? 
Er 


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Quisecum Theologiz abstulit, 
Peritissimus THEoLoeus, 
Corpus hic suum sibi minus charum, 
deposuit. 
Vixit Annos. XCIV. 
Docuit, Annos, LX X. 
Obiit, A.D. M. DCC. VIII. 
Et quod mori potuit, 
Heic 
Expectat Exoptatque 
Primam Sanctorum Resurrectionem 
ad 
Immortalitatem. 





CHEEVERI EX LIBRO 
LONDINI SCRIPTO 


AB A. D, IN TEMPORE, 1631,—AD A. D. 1637. 


CARMINA SELECTA. 





NATALITIA CHRISTI MUNDI REDEMPTORIS. 


Kcee iterum medio glacialis frigore brumae 
CuriIsTE puer tenera virgine natus ades. 

En iterum tua festa novo celebranda sub anno 
Ducis, et ad cunas quemque venire jubes. 

Te video divine puer, dulcissima Jesu, 
Edite coelestide genitore Deus, __ 

Te video, cunasque tuas, suavissime CurisTE, 
Edite mortali de genetrice puer. 

Ecce jaces laceris (puer optatisime) cunis 
Ponis et in duro membra tenella toro. 

Et te casta sinu recubantem mater amoeno © 
Molliter amplexu brachiolisque fovet. 

En fovet ipse senex Josephus, et aspera brumae 
Frigora solicitus qua licet arte fugat. 

Adsum sancte puer cupidisque amplexibus ultro 
Brachia in adventum tendo parata tuum. 

Ad tua prostratus genibus cunabula flexis 
Para tibi grato pectore dona fero, 

Carmine solenni meritas dum pangere laudes 
Conor, et arguta fundere voce melos. 

En tibi pervigilem (Jesu mitissime) noctem, 
Primula quae cunis fulsit aborta tuis. 

Pervigili meditor studio celebrare, canentem 
Tu modo si dextro (summe) favore juves. . 

O ades atque juva placidus tu suggere blandos 
Vere pater vatum maxime Phoebe, modos. 

Tu vivis anima numeris mea carmina, da tu 
In certos veniant libera verba pedes, 

Sic te digna canam dulci praeconia versu— 
Sic fluet ingenii limpida vena mei— 


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Ergo soporiferis nox o pulcherima bigis 
Scande modo aurati templa serena poli, 

Fundito jucundas terris optatibus umbras, 
Et renova tenebris gaudia nostra tuis— 

Gaudia quae quondam toti laetissima mundo, 
Prima dabas summi nuncia prima boni : 

Cum puer e gravida matris foret editus alvo 
Unica spes hominum Curistvus et una salus, 

Diffugiant nigrae toto procul aethere nubes 
Purior et cunctis rideat aura locis— 
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Sidera quae variis distinguunt aethera gemmis 
Lumine jam solito splendidiore micent. 

Virgo gerens tumidum caelesti numine ventrem 
Nescia mortalis virgo pudica viri, 

Hla Dex sobolem mixtu paritura beato, 
Ponere maturum dum meditatur onus, 

Dum gelido vigilans miseri sub culminis antro 
Expectat coeli subvenientis opem,— 

Interea celeres properans absolvere cursus, 
Ingreditur mediam nox tenebrosa viam. 

Undique jam dulcis placido mortalia somno 
Corpora mulcebat fessa labore quies, 

Quaesitumque inter nemorum fruticeta soporem 
Praebebant tacitis abdita lustra feris,— 

Jam genus alituum muta sub fronde quiescens, 
Nulla repercussa carmina voce dabat— 

Alta per et sylvas rigidosque silentia montes 
Nec strepitus campis nec sonus“ullus erat— 

Spirabant tenues minimo cum murmure venti, 
Mitior et vacuis aura silebat agris— 

Quique ferox pontus furioso tunditur Euro 
Leniter in stratas currere caepit aquas— 

Quinetiam magno subterlabentia mundo 
Volvuntur tacitis sidera cuncta viis 


Usque adeo tranquilla silent dominoque ministrant 


Singula, sic justo cuncta tremore pavent 
Miranturque novo mysteria maxima partus 
Dum deus humano corpore risit humum. 
Virgo sed in utero media inter vota soluto 
Salvifico mundo molliter edit onus, 
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Fas tua supplicibus sterni ad praesepia votis, 
Fas dare sit sanctis oscula casta genis. 
Vertite caelestis cunabula vertite prolis 
Nobilius quo nil prosperiusque nihil. 
Edit onus virgo, nec jam mora conscius aether 
Signa dat, et summa protinus arce tonat, 
Plaudit Io caelum, clangoribus insonat orbis 
Omnis Io, plausu terra sonante salit— 
Exultant vallesque cavae collesq. supini, 
Sylvaque frondentes concutit alta comas. 
Vertite caelestis cunabula vertite prolis 
Nobilius qua nil prosperiusque nihil. 
F lumina conversos stupefacto gurgite cursus 
Sistunt, et trepidans lenius unda fluit— 
Plaudit avis penna, viridisque per avia sylvae 
Insolitum suavi concinit ore melos— 
Omnia laetantur—ridet liquidissima mundi 
Iorma—nitent agri—prata serena micant— 
Aurea lux tota radiis fulgentibus aethra 


Surgit et ardentes spargit ubique faces :— 
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Parva loquor :—forte et pastores montibus illis _ 


Servabant clausos septa per arcta greges : 
His niveus summo veniens adsistit Olympo 
Angelus et trepidis nuncia laeta refert, 
Iste viri, supera vobis salvator ab arce 
Natus in humana carne videndus, adest. 
Pergite Davidicae propere sub moenia, Bethles, 
Et date mox regi munera astra novo. 


Dixerat, hi properant, fugit ille ad culmina coeli 


Ambrosioque omnem spargit odore locum. 
Extemplo magnum visi per inane volatus, 

Et simul Angelici densa caterva chori : 
Fit plausus, reboat laetis discursibus aer, 

Ictaque jucundis perstrepat aura sonis. 
Unus erat cantus, sit gloria summa tonanti 

Pace nova tellus, pace triumphet homo: 


Responsant nemora, et montes, campique jacentes, 


Unanimi plaudunt per loca cuncta sono. 
Vertite caelestis cunabula, vertite prolis 


Quem mare quem summae non capit aula domus— 


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Haec inter studia, et magni solennia mundi 
Gaudia, nox cursus finit abacta suos— 

Nox qua nec superis, nec qua mortalibus unquam 
Laetior, aut mundo gratior ulla fuit. 

Haec nox illa fuit, multos quae festa per annos 
Semper erit puris concelebranda sacris— 

Haec desiderio patrum exoptata piorum— 
Haec spes solicitis vatibus una fuit— 

Haec illa est primis promissa parentibus, orbem 
Vix ubi condiderat dextera magna Dei :— 

Silicet ex casta qua virgine surgerat heros 
Et Deus, et vero tempore natus homo :— 

Inclyta nox salve, nox optatissima salve, 
O nox ante omnes nobilitata dies. 

Tu mundi solem generas, radiisque serenis 
Perpetuae monstras dulce salutis iter— 

Tu miros adeo partus, tu primula sentis 
Vagitus, tenero quos dedit ore puer. 

Ille en mortales Deus immortalis in auras 
Prodit, et humani corporis ossa gerit. 

Salve iterum nox chara Deo, nox prospera mundo, 
Nox omni potior, nobiliorque die. 

Vertite caelestis pueri cunabula, cujus 
Laus et honos ullum nescit habere modum. 





CHRISTUS IN CRUCE. 


Respice que tulerim pro te (mi chare viator) 
Verbera, quas vultu cernis et ore notas: 

Aspice quanta manu saeva mihi livida-dantur 
Figunturgue meis vulnera quanta genis. 

Cur eadem paterer nulla est mea culpa, nec ulla 
Causa, nisi ut nostra sanus homo esset ope. 

Languores ego nempe tuos, tua crimina gessi, 
Et sudore meo corpora sicca tenes. 

Cum male tractarer linguam, simul ora retenta 
Continui, tacitus verbera dira ferens : 

Ut solet agnellus coram tondente silebam 


Et quasi quae ducta est ad loca mortis ovis 
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En meus ille sacer vultus deitatis imago 
Spiritibus superis gaudia summa fereiis, 

Illa inquam facies, in qua sit gloria caeli _ 
In qua majestas cernitur atque nitor 

Turpiter adsputa est, mucosis plena salivis 
Squalet, et a pugnis aspice caesa tumet. 

Praela ego calcavi solus, cruor undique fluxus, 
Nec pars illaesa est corporis ulla mei. 

Commoveat te noster amor, namque arce paterna 
Lapsus amore tui tristia cuncta tuli 

Atque libens quid enim potuit me cogere, cujus 
Vis est omnipotens, quid ? nisi verus amor. 

Ergo tuum cor redde mihi, cui pectus apertum 
Extensis manibus brachia tensa dedi. 

Disce meo exemplo patienter ferre dolores 
Et dare in adversis pectora tota Dro. 

Nemo coronatur nisi quem patientia laudat, 
Ergo boni pugnans militis instar age. 





FABULA. 


Forte mihi puero putei super ore sedenti 

Annulus exciderat, nec erat spes ulla legendi. 

Cum pater e filo lapidem demittit in undas_ ; 
Praedatorem auri: subitoque excitus ab imo 
Annulus occurrit fundo, lapidipue coherens 
Tanquam hamo piscis, summas effertur in auras. 
Talia mirantem Pater occupat. Accipe causam 
Nate ait, et lapidem (non longa est fabula) nosce:— 
Deucalion et Phyrrha (genus mortale duobus 

In quibus omne fuit quondam et duo turba fuerunt) 
Ut reparent populos, sua post vestigia jussos 
Projiciunt lapides: lapides seu semina frugum 
Mollescunt, inque ossa virum mutanter et ora 
Quanquam homines aliqui nondum digesta videntur 
Effigies’et adhuc retinent de marmore multum, 
Duritiaque docent, qua sint ab origine nati. 

Jam nova crescebat soboles, et cura trahebat _ 

In diversa animos ; nam prout cecidere per undas 
Aut per agros.lapides, aut per spelaea ferarum, 

Aut propter montes ferrique aurique feraces ; 


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Sic genium traxere loci, venatibus ille 

Indulget, terram colit hic, illi aequora sulcant, 

Hi ferri venas, aurumque per omnia quaerunt, 

_ Et sceleris quaerunt mortisque per omnia causas. 
Tunc vero haec oculis invitamenta malorum 
Abduxit Natura parens, et in intima terrae 
Viscera contraxit, manesque removit ad imos. 
Sed tamen huc quoque descendit furiosa cupido 
Abdita rimatur, terramque eviscerat omnem, 
Scilicet indignata homini Natura. Quis ultra 
Finis erit? dixit, tellus exhausta metallis 

Ante gemit, quam dira fames saturata quiescat. 
Dum loquitur mentem magnetia vertit in aura 

Et puduit vertisse : videt molimine longo 
Justantes operi, defossique ultima mundi 
Scrutantes arcana, et opes (sua damna) petentes ; 
O prona in terram clamat perituraque turba, 
Quodque sibi fodit prope Tartara, digna sepulchro, 
Dixit, ct irato tremefecit numine terram, 
Opressitque viros, et glebae immiscuit artus ; 
Quam male tractabat per aperta pericula glebam. 
Quin flamma e Stygiis (ut erat vicina) cavernis 
Illam memborum terraeque sine ordine massam 
Fumida corripuit, coctamque in saxa coegit : 
Unde color, species et adhuc semiusta remansit. 
Nec tantum color, at vivos quae torserat olim 
Magnetes, etiam lapides sensuque carentes 
Tangit avaritia : utque aurum, ferrumque legentes 
Oppressit fatum, sic ipsa cadavera praedam 


Quaeque suam agnoscunt, geminaque cupidine fervent, 


Et trahit hic ferrum magnes, illa attrahit aurum. 
Tunc ego ad haec patris ridens miracula, sane 
Quam metuo dixi, quando aurum poscimus omnes, 
Ne genus humanum saxa in magnetia migret. 
—Sic me fabellis pater oblectare solebat. 


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DE GESTIS, SUCCESSIBUS ET VICTORUS REGIS 


SUESLZ 1N GERMANIA. 
Eziixioy 


AD CAROLUM REGEM. 


Arma prius ceceni cum panderet inclyta portas 
Sylva ducis Batavis, in Tentonas arma supersunt : 
Quae mea Caliope pangat, quae numine fretus 
Suecus in Albanis vibrans faeliciter arvis 
Ista legat Carolus, Carolo neque gratior ulla est 
Quam sibi quae Sueci pretexit pagina nomen. 
Visa diu lapsis felix Germania seclis 
Artibus, ingeniisque, et festa pace virebat, 
Fudit opes, frugesque immenso copia cornu, 
Dulciaque innocuae peragebant otia gentes. 
Hoc dea prodigiis immanior omnibus ATE 
Vidit et invidit, sed non diuturna futura est 
Copia, et unanimes ditans concordia cives, 
Dixit, et implicitos canis arrecta colubros 
Incesta Austriacae gentis de stirpe creati 
Ferdnandi furias, atque impia pectora foedis, 
Concitat illecebris, stimulis quem ingentibus urget 
Sanguinis alta sitis, dominandi et caeca libido, 
Non ita cum celeres perflant incendia venti 
Saevit in ambustos exultans flamma penates : 
Nec tantum quoties vitiata Syrius aura 
Afstuat atra lues vicos populatur et urbes 
Ferdnandi quantum rabies immane per orbem 
Tentonicum grassata furit, quem nulla coercet 
Relligio, summis auditaque foedera coelis, 
Ille sed ut valeat, propriis emergere regnis 
Et scelere imperii latos extendere fines, 
In patriae strictos acuit crudeliter enses 
Viscera quaque ruunt funesto moenia bello 
Justitia et nudis libertas exulat agris. 
—Quid memorem caedes effera facta tyranni 
Sparsaque purpureis millena cadavera campis 
Dira Palatinus testatur praelia Rhenus, 
Danubiique, Albisque fluentes sanguine rivi? 
Ista tuens occulis NEMESIS Rhamnusia justis 


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Cur ita lenta mea est, inquit, manus? ergone semper 
Impunice Austriacas Germanas proteret herbas? 
Da pater, oc Suecis aboleri dedecus armis, 

Si populo curas inimicam avertere pestem, 
Suscitat extemplo laudisque accendit amore, 
Ingentes Gustavi animos, qui fulminis instar 
Emicat, ac pulsos reficit justissimus ultor, 

Qualis Alexandri Persis sat cognita virtus, 

Seras et AZoum gladio demessuit orbem : 

Qualis et Aumathio conspectus in agmine Caesar 
Perculit adversas gelida formidine turmas : 

Talis belligeri proles invicta Gradivi : 
Suecus adest, tantumque furens trahit ille timoris, 
Nam quacunque minax paribus se ostendit in armis 
Induperatrices plaudenda strage catervas 
Obtruncat sternitque ferox, tu Lipsia testis 

Quae modo vertentes inhonesto terga pudore 
Pannonicas vidisti acies, ubi Tillius ingens 
Tillius Austriacae decus et tutela Viennae 

Fugit, et indecores retro convertit habenas :— 
Num tua in hunc, Tilli, fuerat servata dolorem 
Canities, tristis Ferdnando ut nuncius iret 
Tilliacam cecidisse manum, dum victor Adolphus 
Gliscit, et inferias sub Tartara maenia mittit. 

Hoc unum est quo dira tui monumenta furoris 
Gauderet Magdekburgum :—jam Talio saevas 
Indicit victis per mortem ac vulnera leges, 

Et vindicta tuis crudelia facta reponit. 

Nunc agite, et festas laeti celebrate choraeas 
Papicolae, ac triviis Bacchantes orgia circum, 
Sanctorum effigies rapidis absumite flammis— 
Sed timor est forsan ne detonet arduus aether, 
Atque sacer vestris colluceat ignibus ignis ;— 
Sed regina deest Poloni charissima conjux. 

Tu quoque calvitiem triplici redimite corona 
Anti-Christe pater scelerum, fraudisque repertor, 
Nue in Evangelicos diras ac fulmina mitte 
Bruta, tuos praeter nulli nocitura maniplos. 
—Tu vero qui tela Dei, qui sacra Tonantis 
Bella geris, spes Catholicae certissima turbae 
Terror, et Austriacae mastix saevissima gentis 
Macte animis, Gustave heros, tibi militat aether 


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Desuper, ecce tibi stellelarum exercitus omnis 
Ordine bella gerit, tibi nostri gloria saeeli 
Suppetias mittit Carolus, tibi belliger Anglus,. 
Anglus Hamiltoni claro sub nomine tutus 
Bavaricas confringet opes, tibi Bultica primas, 
Numine propitio dederat Pomerania sedes ; 
Agnoscunt socii tua quid prudentia possit 
Saxones, atque tuas novit Silesia vires. 
Perge armis, et perge tuis successibus opto, 
Rex invicte, et si Jesuitica Pharmaca vites 
Saepe tibi nectet victoria laeta corollas 
Donec ad AZoum tua dextera fulminet [strum. 
Hanc hederam interea si fors’ tua tempora circum 
Inter victrices patiaris serpere lauros, 
Me satis est cecinisse tuae praeconia laudis, 
—lIpse sed in patria remanebo inglorius urbe. 





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